The Lunch Box is specifically designed to support school district food service teams as they transition their meal programs from processed to scratch cook using fresh ingredients. With open source resources that provide technical support, school districts are able to use The Lunch Box to expand their capacity and ensure that healthy food reaches even more kids each and every day. Users have free access to scalable and downloadable recipes, USDA compliant menu cycles, procurement tools, financial calculators, implementation strategies for salad bars, training tools, marketing materials such as posters and signs, and much more!

TLB offers:

• Relevant, up-to-date operational content and resources that enable school districts to serve healthy, scratch-cooked meals
• Information about programs and opportunities that solve common problems experienced by school food service teams
• Tools for marketing and promoting their lunch program and healthy eating

Program Details

The Lunch Box is the largest online resource for scratch cooking in schools. It is designed specifically to support school district food service teams as they transition their food programs from processed foods to scratch cooking with fresh ingredients.

The online toolkit provides technical support to help districts expand their services, ensuring that healthy food reaches more kids every day. Users have free access to:

• Scalable and downloadable recipes
• Examples of USDA compliant menu cycles
• Procurement tools
• Financial calculator
• Implementation strategies for salad bars and school breakfast
• Training tools
• Marketing materials such as posters and signs
• Much more!